In the next few days the Open Doors Festival where, also in this edition, the writer will be a guest Alberto Vanoloauthor of the essay “The Autistic City” (Einaudi)to Cremona.
The initiative to raise awareness among citizens
Thanks to the reading group Happy News, the writer wants to bring to light a reality that still lives in the shadows today. The purpose of his presence, it writer Alberto Vanoloencloses it in several questions asked to raise people’s awareness of an important topic to better understand neurodivergences.
Is it possible to imagine a city open to difference? A space where we can rethink the encounter with neurodiversity? Where to experience other rhythms, relationships and ways of living? These are the questions that the professor of political economic geography asks himself Department of Culture, Politics and Society of the University of Turin.
The message contained in the book
The book, which will be presented on Saturday May 25, 2024 at the Open Doors Festival, at 9.45 am in the garden of the Comics Center in via Palestro in Cremonacontains everything related to neurodivergence, thus opening a dialogue with the Happy News reading group.
“First of all we should talk about autism and not autism – explains the writer – because people with a diagnosis are completely different from each other. People with autism often perceive sensory stimuli in a peculiar way, with specific sensitivities to noise, light and smells. The experience of urban space is not necessarily the same as that of people neurotypicalbut not the same for all people on the autism spectrum.”
“The book wants to leave this message: it is possible to build very different ways of understanding and experiencing neurodivergence, beyond diagnoses and the most oppressive way of considering “normality”. – continues Albero Vanolo – The autistic city project has to do with the change in the cultural coordinates of the discourses on autism and with the idea of appropriating urban spaces to give life to different ways of being together. “
We will also talk about mental health, with the presence of Emanuela Ghinaglia, Psychiatrist at the Psycho-Social Center of Cremona, e Stefania Mattioli Responsible at the ASST Communications and External Relations Structure in Cremona.
